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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 10

A curious example of the effect of the weather upon archaeological exploration is afforded in a monograph just : ssiiwl by the Museum of the Uiiiversiiy of Pennsylvania. This (realise rceoHs (he "finds" niaile in I!H3 in the cemetery of Pachyamnios, in Crete. In Octubcr of that year n iorrential rain sent a ruling stream frnni Ihe lmuilel of Pachyammos 1o the sea, leaving a broad channel twenty metres in width and a metre in depth to mark its course. When (ho water linally subsided it was seen that part of a Minonii cemetery of .jar-burials had been brought to light in thi.s channel. Many of the. jnvs thus discovered v, ill rank among the- finest known specimens of detail decorated iiolliu-y. Tlicy are of interest to Urn anthropologist also, for Ihev .show nut only tiiul Ih.e Cretans must hiive been a short, small-boned race, but that the bodies must have-been placed in a crouching position and the hones broken if necessary to gel them into these vessels. Now that a cemetery lias been discovered at Pachyammos— where its presence benealb the sandy bench would never have been suspected but for Iho elorm-it follows that an ancient town must have, been closo by, which, ivhoii it is possible to Tosume excavations, will have to be located.